Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you, and just because Brooklyn emcee K. Sparks thinks everyone’s watching him doesn’t mean he’s crazy. In fact, given his prodigious lyrical output, it’s pretty damn reasonable. On his latest single “Watching Me”, off his “A Day in the Life” album, Sparks is joined by fellow microphone fiend Chris Young for an ode to the highlights (and low lights) of life for an aspiring rap star. Listen and download…
I’m not going to lie to you. When I saw that the lyrically prodigious K. Sparks had a new track called “Keep Movin” with the grittiest of gritty rappers Sean Price I almost wet myself (hey, I said almost). Produced by G.C., who puts together an appropriately kinetic beat, and featuring some subdued vocals from Julius Francis on the hook, “Keep Moving” is first and foremost a lyrical adventure that includes yet another precise flow from Sparks and references to crack and stolen iTunes cards from Sean Price (“P!”). Listen and download…
For weeks now K. Sparks and production partner Pajozo have been feeding us appetizers off their upcoming “Soul Food” album, but today they’re finally delivered the main course. An album capable both of delighting your musical taste buds and nourishing your hip-hop soul, “Soul Food” is a four-course meal of an album in a land full of disposable, fast food music. See more to listen and download…
K. Sparks and Pajozo’s “Soul Food” project has been pushed back more times than an old man’s hair line (wish I could take credit for that line but it’s Sparks’), but while we’re all waiting for the drop Sparks is making sure we still have plenty to keep our appetites wet with the release of the next leak off the project “Hey Babe”, a female-centric track with some appropriately smooth production from Pajozo’s always intricate rhymes. See more to listen and download…
For those of you who aren’t up on your crazy conspiracy theory game, Area 51 is the nickname for a military base in Nevada thought by many tinfoil hat wearers to house an alien spacecraft captured by the government. What does all that have to do with K. Sparks latest mixtape “Area 51”, presented by Coast2Coast DJs and DJ King Flow? Maybe Sparks is suggesting that his otherwordly lyrical ability could only come from a secret military base, or maybe he’s just been smoking a lot of pot and watching “X Files” marathons/ See more to listen and download…
For the past two weeks we’ve been dropping dopeness off rising hip-hop star K. Sparks and his production partner Pajozo’s upcoming “Soul Food” project (see “Ride Wit Me” and “God’s Love), and now that Soul Food’s release is only days away anticipation is at a fever pitch…for fans of real hip-hop anyway. In order to continue to build some much-deserved hype, the duo has now released the aptly-soulful “The One”, a track inspired by Keanu Reeves. See more to listen and download…
For the record, rap about drugs, alcohol, money or strippers and the radio will blast your track on repeat at listeners until they’re ready to surrender like Noriega (the real Noriega). But write an uplifting song that even mentions god and they won’t touch you. It’s a good thing K. Sparks and Pajozo don’t give a f**k. In the second leak off their upcoming collaborative project “Soul Food”, the always dope Sparks rhymes over some aptly soulful production from his production partner Pajozo, breaking down how “God’s Love” touches us all. See more to listen and download…
The word “freestyle” just doesn’t mean what it used to. Nowadays it seems like the word means less “off the top of the dome” and more “I wrote this down last night, but I’m calling it a freestyle now.” Well thank sweet baby jesus for K. Sparks and Julius Francis, two emcees who apparently still know what a “freestyle” is. On Spark’s latest track, “Ride Wit Me (Whaddup!)” he and Francis prove the art of the freestyle isn’t dead over a dope beat from produced Pajozo. See more to listen and download…
Public Enemy said it best: don’t believe the hype. Urban music and culture has found a home online, but with the explosion of new content appearing online everyday, it’s become difficult to separate what’s real with what’s just hype.
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